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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:05:26 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:56:08 +0100
"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:

> It's not so obvious but in man mdconfig, there's no "[]" around "-t
> type", I read that as "-t something" is mandatory, (though it starts
> without for you ... & I suspect -t default is malloc, though manual
> doesnt say that, but look what manual says re. malloc ... panic ).

But from the manual page:

-f file
     Filename to use for the vnode type memory disk. Options -a
     and -t vnode are implied if not specified.

So if you specify -f then you get -t vnode automatically.

-- 
Bruce Cran